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noun
1.
a quantity, rating, or the like that represents or approximates an arithmetic mean: Her golf average is in the 90s. My average in science has gone from B to C this semester.
2.
a typical amount, rate, degree, etc.; norm.
3.
Statistics. arithmetic mean.
4.
Mathematics. a quantity intermediate to a set of quantities.
5.
Commerce.
a.
a charge paid by the master of a ship for such services as pilotage or towage.
b.
an expense, partial loss, or damage to a ship or cargo.
c.
the incidence of such an expense or loss to the owners or their insurers.
d.
an equitable apportionment among all the interested parties of such an expense or loss. Compare general average, particular average.
adjective
6.
of or pertaining to an average; estimated by average; forming an average: The average rainfall there is 180 inches.
7.
typical; common; ordinary: The average secretary couldn't handle such a workload. His grades were nothing special, only average.
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verb (used with object)
8.
to find an average value for (a variable quantity); reduce to a mean: We averaged the price of milk in five neighborhood stores.
9.
(of a variable quantity) to have as its arithmetic mean: Wheat averages 56 pounds to a bushel.
10.
to do or have on the average: He averages seven hours of sleep a night.
verb (used without object)
Verb phrases11.
to have or show an average: to average as expected.
12.
average down, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a lower price to reduce the average cost of one's holdings.
13.
average out,
a.
to come out of a security or commodity transaction with a profit or without a loss.
b.
to reach an average or other figure: His taxes should average out to about a fifth of his income.
14.
Idiomaverage up, to purchase more of a security or commodity at a higher price to take advantage of a contemplated further rise in prices.
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on the/an average, usually; typically: She can read 50 pages an hour, on the average.
Origin:
1485–95; earlier averay charge on goods shipped, orig. duty (< Middle French avarie < Old Italian avaria < Arabic ʿawārīyah damaged merchandise), with -age replacing -ay
1485–95; earlier averay charge on goods shipped, orig. duty (< Middle French avarie < Old Italian avaria < Arabic ʿawārīyah damaged merchandise), with -age replacing -ay
Related forms
av·er·age·a·ble, adjective
av·er·age·ly, adverb
av·er·age·ness, noun
sub·av·er·age, adjective
sub·av·er·age·ly, adverb
EXPANDsu·per·av·er·age, adjective
su·per·av·er·age·ness, noun
un·av·er·aged, adjective
un·der·av·er·age, adjective
well-av·er·aged, adjective
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Word Origin & History
average
late 15c., "financial loss incurred through damage to goods in transit," from O.Fr. avarie "damage to ship," from It. avaria, a word from 12c. Mediterranean maritime trade. Sometimes traced to Arabic 'arwariya "damaged merchandise," but this might as easily be a borrowing of the word from the Franks.
EXPANDOED suggests It. avere, O.Fr. aveir "property, goods," from L. habere "to have." Meaning shifted to "equal sharing of such loss by the interested parties." Transferred sense of "statement of a medial estimate" is first recorded 1735. The adjective is first recorded 1770; the verb is from 1769. The mathematical extension is from 1755.
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Medical Dictionary
average av·er·age (āv'ər-ĭj, āv'rĭj)
n.
A number that typifies a set of numbers of which it is a function.
See arithmetic mean.
An intermediate level or degree.
Of, relating to, or constituting an average.
Being intermediate between extremes, as on a scale.
To calculate the average of.
To do or have an average of.
To distribute proportionately, as over a period of time.
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average  (āv'ər-ĭj) Pronunciation Key
A number, especially the arithmetic mean, that is derived from and considered typical or representative of a set of numbers. Compare arithmetic mean, median, mode. |
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